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Ken Kolodner has formed a musical partnership with his son, Brad. Together, they play music with Brad on banjo and Ken on hammered dulcimer and fiddle.  The result harkens to a time when generations shared musical traditions as commonly as family recipes and folktales. Ken and Brad join The Signal’s Lisa Morgan for music and conversation.

Signal film critic Josh Slates has reported on the film festivals at Sundance, Toronto, Cannes, and Sitges.  Now, Slates has added ‘Hong Kong’ to his passport.  He joins The Signal’s Aaron Henkin for a look the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

We visit a fitness instructor who specializes in training senior citizens.

We ride the MARC train with a commuter who’s turned his hours on the rails into an album of electronic music.

We drop in at the Enoch Pratt Free Library to meet the team that gets all those returned books back on the shelves.

We pedal along with a bicyclist who tags the city streets with digital graffiti.

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We talk money with Jeff Dicken, of the Baltimore Green Currency Association, about the monetary and social value of the B Note.

We scope out Baltimore’s Transportation Management Center, where the city’s intersections are monitored – and manipulated – by remote.

We pedal along with bicyclist/artist Wally GPX, who tags the city streets with digital graffiti.  He's on Twitter @WallyGPX.

We drop in at the Enoch Pratt Free Library to meet the team that gets all those returned books back on the shelves and ready to be checked out again.

MARC train commuter Peat Biby has turned his hours on the rails into an album of electronic music and photography called, On the Marc.

A visit to the Meadow Mill "Senior Sculpt" class of fitness instructor Jon Kaplan, who specializes in training senior citizens.

Childhood lies:  Why did we tell them?  And what in the world made us think we could get away with them?  From the Vauxhall vaudeville variety program “LIARS,” we hear guilty grown-ups come clean about the whoppers they told when they were kids.